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London, UK – 04 October 2018– Solidatus, the award-winning data lineage visualisation solution, has been selected to join the Department for International Trade (DIT) at the 2018 Singapore FinTech Festival this November.

What is Metadata?

Put simply, it’s data about data. The who, what, when, where and how that outlines the properties and tags to categorise the information on a piece of data, defining its purpose.

Take, for example, a digital image. The file may tell you the size of the image, the date & time it was taken, what type of camera was used, and where the photo was taken. This is metadata, it gives you more insight into the data asset.